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...crumbling marriage of his ex-babysitter, Annie (Kate Beckinsale, “Underworld”). As Arthur’s parents attempt to reconcile their differences, Annie and her husband Glenn (Sam Rockwell, “Matchstick Men”) struggle to maintain appearances for the sake of their daughter, even as Annie has an affair with her co-worker’s husband. The relationship between Becinsale and Rockwell is striking not only for its violent outbursts but for the way it both humanizes and demonizes them. Rockwell is unnerving in the part of a born-again Christian...
...first page of the title story. When we meet the protagonist Ruma, a young mother recently relocated to Seattle, she’s nervously anticipating the arrival of her father, who, having taken to travel after losing his wife, is filling his time between European tours by visiting his daughter. Ruma worries that her father’s visit is an indication that he wants to claim his traditional right to live with her as paterfamilias. When she sees him planting hydrangeas—“They were always your mother’s favorite...in this country, that...
...into contact with Janet Hartigan (Sarah Jessica Parker), to whom he once gave a bad grade, but who is unaccountably willing to forget and forgive - a process he does not make easy for her. He does not make living with him easy for anyone. Not his super smart daughter, Vanessa (Ellen Page), doing a role reversal, in which she plays a sort of surrogate parent to him; not for Chuck, his feckless brother (hilariously played by Thomas Haden Church)- not for anyone who crosses his lurching path...
...Wednesday, Shannon's mother, Karen Matthews, appeared in court accused by police of child neglect and concealing information about the whereabouts of her daughter. She is joined in custody by Shannon's 39-year-old step-uncle, Michael Donovan, 39, who was charged on March 17 with abducting the schoolgirl and falsely imprisoning her at his home...
...several tabloids aimed at the working class, the British media largely ignored the Matthews story until some of its more lurid revelations emerged. That lackadaisical approach contrasted with the rolling coverage given to the high-profile abduction last year of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann, the doe-eyed daughter of a prim pair of young professionals. That case seemed to play out as a distinctly middle-class drama: the McCanns were dining at a sun-splashed Portuguese resort when their daughter went missing. The Shannon Matthews case, on the other hand, has provided a stark reminder to the residents...